IE proxy chaining

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May 11th, 2005, 06:31 PM
mikester2

IE proxy chaining

I was doing some searching around to see if it was possible to chain proxies together in IE 6 without any support programs being required. I saw another post on antionline saying that is was possible using a IP:PORT IP:PORT type syntax with the last IP address having it's port number in the provided port box in IE for proxies. I tried this but it did not work.

I was wondering if anyone knew if this really worked and had been successful in using it. If so any help you can offer on what i'm doing wrong would be great. Thanks :)

example syntax i tried :-
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |80|
May 11th, 2005, 11:28 PM
Riot

Yes it dose actually i am doing it as i am posting this the syntax is
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |80|

the 80 in the box being the last port number remember to put the : after the ip as your first ip address in your sample dose not have one and i dont know if this is a typing error or not.
May 12th, 2005, 02:02 AM
thehorse13

What version of IE are you running where this works? Support for chaining was removed in IE6 IIRC.
May 12th, 2005, 11:47 PM
Computernerd22

I'm currently using Internet Explorer 6 as my web browser and I am able

to assist in hiding my idenity while I'm on the net. How? By simply

using these proxy servers from
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

Now to configure the browser for the anonymous proxy server.

220.65.128.4 8080 transparent South Korea

opening Internet Explorer click on tools, go down to internet options,

click on the connections tab, click on the button below LAN Settings

button, Place a check in use a proxy server for your LAN

This will enable you to enter data into the white fields provided in

the Address field you can type 220.65.128.4 port on 8080. Hit OK. Do

not place check in bypass proxy server for local addresses.

Click OK. Now go to a site like www.whatismyip.com or www.ipchicken.com

or www.ip2location.com and see your current location now it should say

something totally different. Heres a couple shots from my PC yesterday.
May 12th, 2005, 11:51 PM
mikester2

Cool post, but the only problem i have is that i already have a proxy server i HAVE to go through in order to get access to the net, so if i removed that i nothing works.
May 13th, 2005, 12:07 AM
Relyt

Could always use the anonymizers. Toss anonymizer in google and you'll most likely have several choices.

cheers
May 13th, 2005, 01:20 AM
Riot

IE 6.0 sp2 and it works fine for me.
May 13th, 2005, 01:34 AM
thehorse13

6.0 SP2 and chaining works? Interesting. I have yet to see anything other than a single proxy server recognized and used with 6.0.

Time to retest and post my results.
May 13th, 2005, 06:01 PM
thehorse13

Quote:

Yes it dose actually i am doing it as i am posting this the syntax is
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |80|

the 80 in the box being the last port number remember to put the : after the ip as your first ip address in your sample dose not have one and i dont know if this is a typing error or not.

As I suspected, this does not work. The proxy field will only honor one proxy server. I placed 3 proxy servers in a chain and IE only used the first one. The proxy happens to be in Italy which is why when I went to Google, it threw me to the localized Google site. You can look at my attached screen shots for more details.

The first two are proxy settings pictures so you can see that I have more than one proxy defined in the chain. The third picture is a netstat capture showing that indeed I am only going through the first proxy in the chain (in Italy) and the last is a pic of the localized Google site in Italy.

Myth busted. Chaining does not work in IE 6 - period.
May 13th, 2005, 06:46 PM
mikester2

So has there ever been support for chaining proxies in IE or has it just always been people thinking that it works ?
May 13th, 2005, 08:28 PM
XTC46

it has worked in the past anything before IE 6 IIRC
May 13th, 2005, 08:47 PM
thehorse13

Yep, 5.X it will work fine but riot stated that he has IE6 and it was working as he posted. We know that he is mistaken. If he does a netstat, I'm sure he will only see the first proxy listed in the field.
May 13th, 2005, 09:38 PM
XTC46

correct. It looks like IE will take the entry for multiple proxies, but will not in fact use all of them.
May 15th, 2005, 05:04 PM
Riot

Quote:

Yep, 5.X it will work fine but riot stated that he has IE6 and it was working as he posted. We know that he is mistaken. If he does a netstat, I'm sure he will only see the first proxy listed in the field.

yes and you would be correct i did not check to see if it was using all of the proxies in the chine i just assumed it was because i know it you used to be able to chain sorry for the wrong information.